Queens Wharf (Wellington, N.Z.)

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-07

Description: View of ships at Queens Wharf, Wellington Harbour Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1890 - 1891

By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952; James, Thomas Harvey, active 1888-1907; Lyon & Blair Ltd

Reference: B-051-001

Description: View from Jervois Quay, looking towards the Wellington Harbour Board offices (now the Museum of Wellington, City and Sea building), with part of Queen's Wharf and ships' masts visible in the background to the left. There is a penny-farthing bicycle in the street and people standing around in groups, with three dogs lying in the foreground. The Harbour Board insignia is in the sky to the left and a list of the then current Harbour Board office-holders is on the right. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 235 x 364 mm

Date: 1905

From: Birch, A E :Scenic negatives and prints taken by Thomas Pringle

Reference: 1/1-007061-G

Description: View looking north along Jervois Quay, Wellington, showing Queens Wharf in the centre background. Photograph taken ca 1905 by Thomas Pringle of Wellington. Dated from other negatives in sequence. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-004-2

Description: A bustling wharf scene at Wellington (probably Queen's Wharf) with the steamer Ahuriri tied up on the left, the ship's captain holding one of the Tetley family's horses and two of the Tetley boys (Cadwallader and either Willy or Frank) holding two ponies on the right, while baggage is trundled past them. The hills and houses of Wellington are visible in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 105 x 205 mm

Date: 1886

By: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.4799gmfs/A/1886/Acc.3319

Description: Map showing of Wellington Harbour as at 1886, from Waterloo Quay to Clyde Quay, showing harbour soundings, Queen's Wharf, railway wharf, wool wharf, buildings in the vicinity including government offices, Supreme Court, police station, harbour board, drill shed, freezing works, railway terminus, parliamentary buildings, Government House, Custom Post and Telegraph, marine telegraph, wool shed, boat harbour, Thorndon and Te Aro Baths, and several banks. Shows named Te Aro streets from Courtenay Place to Marjoribanks Street, and unnamed reclaimed streets from Wakefield Street to Jervois Quay and Cable Street, identifying the proposed reclamation corporation endowment. Includes two tables on the map, one showing class and tonnage of goods passing over wharves, the other berthage accommodation along the wharf. Soundings shown in feet. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 26 x 37 cm.

Date: 1960

By: Tricker, Gary Walter Morice, 1938-2021

Reference: B-111-005

Description: View looking inland from Queen's Wharf towards wharf sheds and other buildings in Customhouse Quay. Bollards and a wheeled trolley are in the foreground Edition number 6 of 8 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Signature, date, title, edition number Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, black and white 130 x 195 mm

Date: 1904

Reference: 1/2-007905-G

Description: The entrance to Queen's Wharf with the Harbour Board building on the right and Post Office Square in front of it. Pedestrians and a woman on a bicycle are crossing the square in the foreground and on the right of the square is Queen's Chambers. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Original half plate glass negative

Date: 16 July 1977

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1977/2742-F

Description: Photograph of Wellington from Queens wharf looking towards Post Office square, taken 16 July 1977 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Original caption reads: "The old, the middle-aged, the new, and the under construction. Some of Wellington's varied buildings can be seen from Queens Wharf. The Huddart Parker Building on the left, and the Harbour Board offices on the right, will soon be overshadowed by the Grey street project - a 12-storey office block being built for the AMP Society. Behind them all, the James Cook Hotel and IBM House tower up from the Terrace". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1975-1989

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-167

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [between 1858-1887]

Reference: PAColl-6114

Description: Comprises: Hutt Road in 1868; Queen's Wharf ca 1860s; Wellington circa 1887; Thorndon circa 1860s; St John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, 1858. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/4-016071, 1/2-075008 and 1/2-091405 Quantity: 5 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1928-1940

By: Lythgoe, Mary Wilhelmina Margaret, 1923-2010

Reference: PAColl-0159

Description: Postcards of New Zealand scenes and 1 photograph Quantity: 9 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1899 - 1912

By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906; Ellerbeck, Laurence Anderson, -1963; Parkerson, C P, active 1911-1912; Watson, Alexander James, -1920; Marsh, Robert George Stanley, 1862?-1940

Reference: PAColl-3405

Description: Includes school groups in Te Aroha and Gisborne, NZ forces on Queens Wharf, Wellington, prior to departure for South Africa in 1899, and groups of tourists in the Thermal District Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [Between 1927 and 1955]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-206

Description: Photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1927 and 1955, mostly in the Wellington Region. Some are art photographs, including still life images of carvings, cloisonne ware and porcelain, and some are tinted. One sequence shows the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery, both interior and exterior views. Some were taken in April 1936 before the building was furnished; others were taken later in 1936 and 1937, including the Kauri Hall, the Sculpture Hall, the Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Academy Gallery, the Maori Hall, and the entrance vestibule. Civic events are shown in illuminations at the Government Buildings for the King George V Silver Jubilee on 12th May 1935; the Carillon tower floodlit for for the coronation of King George VI; and night photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940, including the Australian and British pavilions. Wellington is shown in views from various hills and rooftops. Specific trips and occasions include a Waikaremoana trip in 1930; the Victoria University College Natural History Society trip to Butterfly Creek in 1933; a Camera Club outing near Mangaroa Hill in 1938; and celebrating Xmas in Auckland in 1952. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super-Cobra binder file; 30 x 24 cm

Date: ca 1860-1870

By: Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes, 1905-1997

Reference: PAColl-6511

Description: Five photographs of Wellington in the 1860s and 1870s: one of St Andrews, Lambton Quay; one of Thorndon from Tinakori Hill; one looking towards Tinakori Hill from the top of Molesworth Street; one looking down Molesworth Street looking towards Mount Victoria; and one from the Terrace looking towards Queen's Wharf. Photographer unknown. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-010011, 010014, 010016, 010019, 010020, 010022, and 021042 Quantity: 7 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negatives Transfers: Print from one negative at PAColl-6208-22..

Date: 1864

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-009/009-1

Description: Watercolour shows the ship Wild Duck at Queen's Wharf, Wellington in the 1860s, while pencil drawing on verso shows a high-country lake scene, with a group of cows venturing into the water in right foreground. The Wellington scene may be in 1864. In that year, C. D. Barraud's son, W. F. Barraud, sailed to Europe aboard the Wild Duck Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, and on verso, pencil drawing, on sheet 381 x 524 mm.

Date: 1869

By: Bragge, James, 1833-1908; Taylor, Robert H, active 1907-1910

Reference: PAColl-D-0790

Description: View looking down onto the Terrace School and beyond that to Queen's Wharf and recently reclaimed land, and across the harbour to Roseneath and Oriental Bay. In the middle distance is the department store, Kirkcaldie & Stains, on Lambton Quay. Photograph taken by James Bragge in 1869, and print made from negative by R H Taylor ca 1907 Identical image at PA7-30-09, PA7-57-07, PAColl-D-0009. Image is in the centre of a panorama at PA6-271 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Protected R Taylor; Mount recto - beneath image - 1869 Lambton Quay & Queens Wharf from above the terrace 1869 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 290 x 390 mm mounted on card 485 x 550 mm

Date: [Between 1841 and 1929]

By: Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Tyree Brothers (Firm); Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-o-430

Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originallty taken between about 1841 and 1929. Includes one photograph of a painting of Wellington waterfront from 1841, by Charles Heaphy. Only a few images identify the photographers, the Burton Brothers, Tyree Brothers and James Bragge. The Bragge photograph (looking down to the Harbour from Hill Street taken in the 1880s) was identified from his horse-drawn carriage with his name and occupation emblazoned on the side. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: Most of the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections.

Date: ca 1945-1955

By: Photo News Ltd; New Zealand. National Publicity Studios

Reference: PAColl-4748

Description: Photographs of: the corner of Cuba and Manners Streets showing McCready Ltd, Vance Vivian, and Hope Bros, a traffic policeman, a tram and pedestrians crossing (captioned to be returned to the New Zealand Legation in Washington) and four of the MV Te Aroha taking on cargo at Queen's Wharf with some of the crew on the deck. Photographers were Photo News and the National Publicity Studios. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1884

From: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926 :New Zealand sketches in black and white. 1884.

Reference: E-310-q-014

Description: Three sketches of a view of Queen's Wharf, Wellington, Point Halswell and Wellington Harbour; a seated Maori woman, smoking a pipe and with a baby in a sling on her back; a huia on a branch. Exhibited in 'Huia: Sacred Bird, Lost Treasure' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 24 July to 7 November 1999. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and ink & wash in bound album, page size 173 x 252 mm